#wt!peppino

[riabunn]

weirdcore tower au character concepts part 1!

also this is my first time drawing gustavo and a stupid rat, and that rat is brick

so lately i’ve been sketching out some character designs for a few characters for an au i’m making, weirdcore tower! and of course my self insert is here too, because why not. do note the character designs may not be final, but still feel free to draw them, and also any characters designs that may suddenly pop up when i have ideas for their designs! feel free to make your own ocs and self inserts into this au too!

peppino, ria and gustavo are going to be completely normal people, and they go to the weirdcore tower via dreams. whatever they wear while sleeping in the waking world is what they will wear in the dream

however people who live at the weirdcore tower are weird looking beings who live in weird surreal places, and they range from different kinds of weird: creepy, quirky, cute, toys, and trippy, and more!

you can see that brick is a very sparkly rat inspired by the picture shown above. gustavo first met brick in the tower! but in the waking world… just a normal rat with no glitter :(

that’s enough info for now, that’s for another post!

[riabunn]

WOAG‼️ I DIDNT EXPECT SOMEONE ELSE TO INSERT THEIR OCS INTO THE AU SO SOON!!! WE LOVE TONI IN EVERY AU!!

my son tony he has every disease

ERMMMMM have u guy's seen @riabunn 's weirdcore au perchance.

this came to me in a haze partially because I think having exactly One (1) normal toni is extremely funny to me. Just a normal guy! He's very ill.

Tony's in a coma (though he isn't sure if he's still in a coma or died and is a part of the tower??? it's been a long time since he fell unconscious) and his ass is in the Weird Tower. And he just kinda exists in the tower lobby with Mushroom Man. They offer to sew him clothes so he doesn't have to wear his hospital gown but he always turns it down.

He's frail and much skinnier compared to normal Toni, having lost a lot of weight. His eyes are sunken in but he has a kind smile (usually).

I like to think he'd be a kinda calming presence for Peppino,,, maybe helps him cope with his mortality. or something. and then they kiss.

Since this Toni is just a normal guy, I wanted to give him an actual italian name instead of the weird pun shit I do. And instead of his usual pompadour and weird colored eyes he just has long bangs (which he could. theoretically style into a pompadour, i guess) and green eyes. He's a lot calmer than normal Toni, and is pretty nonchalant about potentially being dead. This version is still trans but he doesn't really struggle with dysphoria as much as the other Tonis so he's a lot less focused on extruding masculinity and just kinda. vibes.

Tony constantly changes what he says his illness is, though it's unclear if he's being playful or if he genuinely can't remember. At a point he tries to ask Peppino to visit him in the real world to check on him, but he can't remember what hospital he was admitted to. He doesn't even remember his address.

i love you tony!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RAHHHHHHHHH

[neocrash1101]

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS NIGHTMARE!!!!"

@alextydaisuda123

It was an interesting way to combine the two, so I drew WT's as well.

I am extraordinarily worried about Peppino's mental state...

Oh, yeah.

The TV part also has a slightly different color scheme, as we thought a duller color would suit it better.

[riabunn]

weirdcore tower au masterpost thingy! 👁️🗼 (WIP)

last updated: 10/13/2024 (mm/dd/yyyy)

⚠️ CONTENT WARNING! This AU explores themes of typical weirdcore stuff such as unsettling imagery like eyes, teeth, and strange entities. It’s weirdcore guys, expect anything you see in that genre to be shown in this AU! I will tag the CWs accordingly, please let me know if I miss any tags needed! If you are uncomfortable with weirdcore in general, feel free to mute the catch-all “weirdcore tower” tag. You can also mute the triggers individually. I tag triggers both ways as “tw trigger” and “trigger tw.” I promise, I don’t get offended if you don’t want to see anything related to this au, the weirdcore aesthetic is not for everyone and I absolutely understand that. Keeping your wellbeing safe is what matters a lot more than a random person on the internet like me mixing my most favorite aesthetic ever with a video game

(note that anything here are subject to change/adjust)

Synopsis

Peppino has sometimes had traumatic nightmares when he sleeps. However, lately, for several months, the trauma torments him frequently no matter what nightly routines he does that had always done to make them less frequent. The cause of this is Poppy, an evil weird floating friendly looking poppy flower entity that can actually turn scary looking, which only exists in the dream world, has caused a [REDACTED] on Peppino, and the only way to get [INFORMATION UNAVAILABLE] to go away is to go to the top of the Weirdcore Tower and defeat Poppy, but the only way he can go there is by going to sleep, and dreaming by any means, whether it would be taking a nap or sleeping at night. Ria (she does not have to be included btw) and Gustavo agree to help him out, doing anything to help Peppino live a better relaxing life that he deserves and stop the frequent traumatic nightmares once and for all.

This AU is inspired not just by the typical weirdcore images, but you will also see that it’s inspired by a lot of weirdcore media such as Yume Nikki, OFF, Osamu Sato games, Hylics, etc. There are different kinds of weird: quirky, creepy, cute, kidcore, dreamcore, etc.

ALLOWED ✅

inserting your ocs/self inserts

using just Gustavo and Brick/your ocs/self inserts instead of Ria for the story (I always imagine it to be both Ria and Gustavo and eventually Brick helping as the default, but you do not have to imagine Ria being there!)

selfshipping/oc x canon/canon x canon (no proshipping please!)

fanart (you are absolutely welcome to tag me in what you make, i like getting surprised by fanart of my characters/au!)

suggestive/pinups (except for Sparkly Rats and Thingies)

NS///FW (EXCEPT SPARKLY RATS AND THINGIES. Thingies are kids, please don’t. Adult characters and adult artists only obviously. Before drawing this kind of stuff, for precautionary reasons, please let me know what idea you have in mind so I can approve it. You can show your art to me, but I won’t share them for obvious reasons. Hard rules: NO RAPE/DUBCON, UNDERAGED, FETISH ART OR PROSHIPS PLEASE)

Adjusting designs as long as the characters are still recognizable

AU Crossovers

NOT ALLOWED 🚫

Proshipping

Genderbends

NFTs and GenAI

Politics

Hate art

Fetish art

Suggestive/NS//FW of Sparkly Rats and Thingies (the Thingies are kids, so don’t be gross with them)

Drawing the characters unfaithfully (whitewashing, slimming down fat characters, greying skin tones, etc. YES I SAID GREYING SKIN TONES. it’s literally not that hard to draw dark skin properly)

character refs 🍄 (wip)

(do note that designs are subject to change)

Peppino, Ria Tequila, Gustavo, and Brick/Sparkly Rats

Pepperman, The Vigilante, The Noise, and Noisette

Fake Peppino, Bruno, Fake Ria, Toppins, and Toppin Monsters

general tags 🏷️

#weirdcore tower - catch-all tag

#wt ask

#wt art - art by me

#wt fanart - art by others

#wt rambles - lore and rambles

character tags

#wt!peppino

#wt!ria tequila

#wt!gustavo

#wt!brick

#mushroom man - Pepperman’s equivalent

#bebe bleu - The Vigilante’s equivalent

#the giggler - The Noise’s equivalent

#gigglest - Noisette’s equivalent

[riabunn]

weirdcore tower character designs part 3! 👁️🗼

surprise surprise! this batch is a two-in-one!

Thingies are the toppins of weirdcore tower, based off of different objects commonly associated with weirdcore. they are Flower, Mushroom, Smiley, Meat, and Moon. moon is inspired by mac tonight from mcdonald’s

Thing Terrors are the toppin monsters of this au. they reside at an abandoned kids party venue which has games, indoor playgrounds and live performances where the terrors performed. the venue also serves food such as pizza, popcorn and juice, often having weird toppings/ingredients like eyes and teeth. more info on specific terrors: the meat terror is a decapitated butcher with his head replaced with a slab of meat. the decapitation was a HUGE part of the downfall of the kids party venue. the moon terror’s reference to mac tonight is much more evident. instead of shouting DINNAH! he shouts PARTEH!

the fakes and bruno are pretty much the same. clones like them can be glitchy in terms of speech and acts. how much they glitch depend on how stable the clone is. they can do any glitch you can think of that happens in video games. if a clone turns scary, their voice may sound deep and demonic, and/or their eyes bleed out black, and they become glitchier

fake peppino is the same strange goopy frog-acting being as his original version, but despite how he looks, he’s not quite the friendly guy that a lot of fans make him out to be, he’s actually quite terrifying. i imagine him to have a similar goal to RecD’s interpretation of him: HE WANTS PEPPINO ON THE PIZZA. as he’s unstable, he’s glitchy, but not as glitchy as fake ria. like seen near the end of RecD’s PTNE lyric video, he always makes pizza with strange things. PIZZA IS INEVITABLE. YOUR SKIN IS STUFFED CRUST.

the other bruno, can simply be referred as just bruno, this is not the same bruno that was peppino’s mentor. i have a hc that the version of bruno (ill refer him as the real bruno) you see after escaping from fake peppino is the mentor of peppino and passed the torch to him. no one except pizzahead knows what happened to him, which he was used to make fake peppino. in this au, it’s almost the same case, but it’s something very strange and unexplainable on what happened to him. the other version of bruno never actually existed in the waking world as was made by pizzahead’s equivalent (i won’t show him yet) as a pure mockery against peppino and the real bruno, as a caricature showing a message that peppino and the real bruno will never be as perfect as the other bruno. he appears at a liminal abandoned pizzeria still named “Peppino Pizza 2,” as a mural on the wall and an outdoor window. and yes he can still turn scary and become glitchy when he’s like that

fake ria (who’s still not canon, she’s basically never gonna be a canon character) is the same extremely unstable, extremely hostile lizard-acting being. she is one of the most unstable clones, so she is extremely glitchy. just like her og version, she hates pizzahead’s equivalent for not making her as good as fake peppino or bruno. she has the same distorted voice, and her pitch varies even more, her pitch can slide a lot here too

be warned, they are actually not as friendly as they look…

and that’s it for this part! i already know what pizzaface and pizzahead’s equivalents will look like, but i have yet to think of stuff for mr stick, peddito, the doise, pillar john and gerome… maybe i can do bonus characters after i do said characters, such as maurice! see you in the next part!